The Benefits of Energy Drinks...Are There Any?
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 21 January 2020
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Today, we’re going to talk about the benefits of energy drinks. In theory, energy drinks are supposed to help increase brain energy, exercise performance, and endurance. However, most energy drinks will actually cause brain fog, less exercise performance, and the ingredients will deplete the cells.
The big problem with energy drinks is that the ingredients don’t give you real energy. These drinks are composed mostly of caffeine and sugar.
Caffeine is not a fuel. It’s a stimulant. It makes you think you have energy, but really it’s just revving up your adrenal glands.
There are also crazy amounts of sugar in energy drinks, which will make you more tired and grumpy, and will make you want another energy drink. A lot of this sugar is not just glucose. It’s fructose. These drinks also contain a lot of sodium and not enough potassium.
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| 0:00.0 | So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about keto or in a minute fasting, |
| 0:04.4 | whether you're starting keto as a new person or just need to debug your program or we have a question about a product. |
| 0:10.5 | Call one of our keto consultants. They'll be able to help you. Call 5405.7. |
| 0:29.0 | Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Kito and Interminute fasting podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. Today we're going to talk about the benefits of energy drinks. Now in theory when you |
| 0:49.0 | consume an energy drink you're supposed to have more brain energy, exercise performance, more endurance, |
| 0:54.8 | your cells are supposed to be recharged, but in reality most energy drinks out there |
| 1:00.0 | will cause brain fog, less exercise performance, |
| 1:04.4 | less endurance, and the ingredients will deplete yourself. |
| 1:08.4 | Now the big problem with energy drinks is that the ingredients |
| 1:11.9 | don't give you real energy. These drinks are composed of two main things. |
| 1:18.3 | Caffeine and sugar. Let's take Red Bull, for example. 8.4 ounces gives you 80 milligrams of caffeine. A 16-ounce |
| 1:27.4 | monster drink is 160 milligrams of caffeine. A 16 ounce rock star drink gives you 160 milligrams. The five hour |
| 1:37.3 | energy drink, the real small one that has like 1.83 ounces gives you 200 milligrams of caffeine. And guess what? |
| 1:46.1 | Caffeine is not a fuel. It's a stimulant. It gives you this artificial sense that you have energy, but really it's just revving up your |
| 1:55.8 | adrenal glands. Now the next problem is the crazy amounts of sugar that is in one of these drinks. |
| 2:01.7 | One of these drinks has about 36 grams of sugar. |
| 2:06.7 | That is crazy. |
| 2:08.4 | What's gonna happen is your blood sugars are gonna spike |
| 2:11.4 | and then the hormone insulin is gonna to come in there and take that |
| 2:14.0 | sugar and push it all the way down and now you're going to be really tired, |
| 2:18.7 | irritable and grouchy and you're going to want another drink because you need to actually bring the energy up with caffeine |
| 2:25.6 | and more sugar and you're in this cyclic trap. Now you might be thinking I'm going to exercise |
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